[merlincorey]

I was thinking similarly, but rather that the process should be front-loaded.

If you are working on a team of engineers to produce a piece of software, and large amounts of time are being spent discussing a fixation such as style guidelines and linter exceptions then I would wager there was not enough (or perhaps even any) time spent on deciding and documenting those things at the start of the project.

If you find yourself having discussions on fixations repeatedly, it's almost certainly time to take a step back, as a team, and come up with the guidelines everyone can live with, and then, most importantly, document those guidelines.

This makes future discussions on fixations really quite simple: "It's in the documented guidelines for the project so either follow that, or propose a change to the guidelines as part of your pull request".